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The Giver
The book "The Giver" is about a young boy named Jonas,who lives in a perfect world:In his community,which assimilates to an isolated town,there doesn't exist neither pain or hunger nor crime or divorces.As he is selected as the new "Receiver of Memory" he can see that there's nothing as it seems. We think "The Giver" isn't that good.Our reasons for not loving that book are that we are two very realistic girls and simply can't follow the storyline,because it's so confusing.Maybe we have too small of an imagination,but above all the ending of the story doesn't really make sense and so many questions are still left open.
The Giver
My best friend has been bothering me to read this novel sinceour freshman year in high school. Finally, during my Sophomore year ofcollege, I decided to read it. It's a wonderful story, which should allow many young adults to think upon issues that they may not usually explore. It portrays a utopian like community very well--showing what a big brother/brave new world mentatlity can create.
The Giver
This book is awesome and teaches you a lot of life lessons. I read it in summerschool and I could hardly put it down. So I read it before class goes over the book. It talked about futuristic Perfect world. No pains, no worries. Each people received certain role which is life long assiment from the elders. Main character, Jonas is assigned as a reciever who recieved all the memories the giver had. As Jonas get more and more memories, he realized his society isn't perfect at all. Then he ran away to the Elsewhere. As the story goes on though, I realized a world with no difference and no choices is not perfect at all.
The Giver
This story takes place in a future in which there are no choices. There are ordered little communities in which there are many rules and all people's lives are planned out by committees. In one such community, a young boy named Jonas is chosen to recieve the memories of all history. These memories of emotions are taken on by one person in the community to protect all the other people. At first, Jonas is a little scared of his new assignment. After a while, though, he can no longer understand why people have chosen to live without choice and emotion. Thus, he and the Giver, being the only two people with these memories, hatch a plan to try and give these memories back to the community in a hope to change it. I found this book to be extremely interesting. I would recommend it to anyone, but especially to people who like deep, science-fiction type books.
The Giver
I loved the novel, The Giver. It exposed the advanced world of utopia and its problems. Although a utopian world has its benefits such as no poverty, hunger, and racism, it also restricts people from the simple benefits of life, such as being able to see colour, being able to make decisions on your own, and unexpected weather changes. Although a utopian life may be desirable to many, living life w/out these benefits isn't living life at all. Having a predictable and controlled environment is not at all satisfactory. Lois Lowry has shown this to us through the eyes of a 12-year old child, Jonas.Another reason I like this book was because I had never read a story like it before. It is very different from the normal books that I have read because it expands on society. Each time I read it, it makes me think of how corrupt our society and world is. I want to change our government, not to the point where it's communist or utopian, but enough that we won't have to worry about money, hunger, or devastation. We would all have jobs and work to better ourselves. We would be the land of opportunity that we never were.The book was going along smoothly until the very end. I believe the end was very abrupt and incomplete. It would have my final star if the last chapter had some sort of happy, if any, conclusion.
The Giver
I've read this book several times, and I've enjoyed it each time. The ending has always seemed a bit contrived to me, as if Lowry was up against a deadline and needed to end the story.Just the same, the idea of a society in which all choices were outlawed and they needed a single person to carry all their memories and their history is intriguing. It's a book to make us appreciate the society we live in, knowing that even if we do often make the wrong choices, at least we have the ability to make those choices.